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Author: William Sanders
Year: 1997
Type: SHORTFICTION
Storylen: novelette
Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undiscovered
ISFDB Record Number: 65635
Synopsis: Alternate history story of William Shakespeare. While drunk in Portsmouth after putting on a show, Shakespeare becomes a stowaway on the wrong boat back to London - and instead winds up in America, where he is eventually captured by Indians.
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Variant Titles:
- Sconosciuto [Italian] (2009) - William Sanders
Awards:
- 1997 Sidewise Award - Best Short Form Alternate History (Win)
- 1998 Sturgeon Award - Shortlist (Nomination)
- 1998 Asimov's Readers' Poll - Asimov's Reader's Poll -- Novelette (Place: 2)
- 1998 Hugo Award - Best Novelette (Nomination)
- 1998 Locus Poll Award - Best Novelette (Place: 21)
- 1998 Nebula Award - Novelette (Nomination)
Publications:
- Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1997, (Mar 1997, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. Dell Magazines, $2.95, 164pp, digest, magazine) Cover: Kim Poor - [VERIFIED]
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, (Jun 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Griffin, 0-312-19033-6, $17.95, lxii+623pp, tp, anth) Cover: John Foster - [VERIFIED]
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, (Jun 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Press, 0-312-18779-3, $29.95, 623pp, hc, anth) Cover: John Foster
- The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, (Aug 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Press / SFBC, #18485, $14.98, lxii+623pp, hc, anth) Cover: John Foster - [VERIFIED]
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection, (Oct 1998, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. Robinson, 1-85487-599-X, £8.99, lxvi+668pp, tp, anth) Cover: Phil Marritt
- The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, (Oct 2001, ed. Harry Turtledove, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-43990-2, $18.00, xiii+415pp, tp, anth)
- The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, (Nov 2001, ed. Harry Turtledove, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC, #03880, $12.99, 416pp, hc, anth)
- Are We Having Fun Yet? American Indian Fantasy Stories, (Jul 2002, William Sanders, publ. Wildside Press, 1-58715-709-8, $15.95, 285pp, tp, coll)
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection, (Aug 2002, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Griffin, 978-0-312-20753-3, $17.95, ebook, anth) Cover: John Foster
- The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, (Feb 2005, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Griffin, 0-312-33656-X, $19.95, xix+655pp, tp, anth) - [VERIFIED]
- The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, (Feb 2005, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. St. Martin's Griffin, 0-312-33655-1, $35.00, xix+655pp, hc, anth)
- The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF, (Mar 2008, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. Robinson, 978-1-84529-424-3, £9.99, xix+778pp, tp, anth)
- East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith, (Sep 2008, William Sanders, publ. Norilana Books, 978-1-934648-65-0, $32.95, 585pp, hc, coll)
- East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith, (Sep 2008, William Sanders, publ. Norilana Books, 978-1-934648-66-7, $19.95, 585pp, tp, coll)
- Il meglio della SF / II. L'Olimpo dei classici moderni, (Nov 2009, ed. Gardner Dozois, publ. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Millemondi (quarterly) #49), € 7.50, 718pp, tp, anth) Cover: Victor Togliani
- The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, (date unknown, ed. Harry Turtledove, Martin H. Greenberg, publ. Del Rey / Ballantine, 0-345-43990-2, $18.00, xiii+415+[3]pp, tp, anth) Cover: David Stevenson - [VERIFIED]